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  Re: Then xmlns attribute in the XHTML DOM Osmo Saarikumpu <osmo@weppipakki.com> - 2016-06-07 14:46 +0300

#30642 — Re: Then xmlns attribute in the XHTML DOM

On 07/06/2016 05:04, Stefan Ram wrote:
>   When no specific browser is targeted, just an implementation
>   of ECMAScript with the ECMAScript language bindings for DOM4,
>   and one wants to insert a span into the XHTML document
>   »this.document«, one might try this:
>
> span = document.createElement( 'span' );
> span.setAttribute( "xmlns", "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" );

The span element does not have a xlmns attribute, only the document 
element (html) has it.

>   Especially, I'd like to know whether the last one, the one
>   that does no mention »w3.org«, already is correct.)

Yes, it's the only correct one, assuming that your document has the html 
element with the required xmlns attribute set.

-- 
Best wishes, Osmo

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